If we were to characterize the landscape of the Highlands as briefly as possible, it would probably be appropriate to use the words inconspicuousness, modesty, moderation. In no area here will we be surprised by dramatic natural scenery, nowhere will we see much more than the slow rolling waves of fields, meadows and forests. The mountains are also there, but they gain their heights slowly, almost imperceptibly, as if they are shy to bend the peaceful horizon any more. The only natural drama here is the weather.

From the sentences that have just been said, it might seem to someone that it is a boring landscape, but that is no accident, it was simply about the whole. The diversity of the Highlands is quite deeply hidden in that inconspicuousness, and that brings a little trouble - it will be revealed only to those who are willing to devote time to it, who really become interested in it.

From a topological point of view, Vysočina is practically the same as the territory of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. At the same time, this our most extensive mountain group belongs to the most stable parts of the Czech massif; Tertiary folding did not significantly affect it, rather it only enlivened the leveled surface with dips and uplifts. The plateau has an arched central part, from which the terrain gradually decreases towards the edges, and it is most often defined by fault slopes in relation to its surroundings. For example, the border with the Central Bohemian Highlands is formed by a striking fault slope, called Načeradecky, which can be noticed in the vicinity of Vlašimi.

The central vault has the character of a steam room, from which the two highest mountains - Žďárská vrchovina and Jihlavské vrchy - stand out more prominently. Coincidentally, both culminate at the same height of 836 m above sea level, but the professional literature states that Jihlav's Javořice towers over the Židár's Nine Rocks by one tenth of a meter...